3. Equality in terms of gender
Equal right to education, live and work for both
male and female.
Overall equal status should be provided to both
male and female.
Domestic violence, child marriage, exclusion of
widows and daughters for land inheritance,
purdah system are still a huge problem for many
sectors in india.
8. "The families are
into prostitution
since generations.
They have been
doing it since
1947," said Om
Prakash Gujjar, a
sarpanch.
9. HINDUISM
JAINISM
BUDHISIM
SIKHISM
ISLAM
CHRISTIANITY
10. Equality in terms of religion
The preamble of India states that we are a secular
country and promises us the equality of status and
opportunity.
But it can be criticised as there are different laws for
different religions and additionally once born into a
particular religion it is nearly impossible to seperate
one’s self from it because religion is our spiritual and
legal identity.
11. HONOUR KILLING
•Honor killings are quite common in
Haryana and Tamil Nadu when young girls
marry somebody outside their caste against
her family’s wishes.
•More than 1000 honour killings in india
every year.
12. The bodies of
Sunita Devi (L), 21,
and her partner
Jasbir Singh, 22,
lie on the ground
after they were
killed by villagers in
an “honour killing”
in Ballah village in
the northern Indian
state of Haryana
May 9, 2008.
13.
14. Equality in terms of opportunity
People should be treated irrespective of
their friendship ties to whoever is in power, religion,
sex, ethnicity, race, caste, or "involuntary personal
attributes" such as disability, age, or sexual
orientation.
Opportunity can be with respect to education, job, or
status.
15. An average woman’s pay is less than one-
third of the average man’s pay in India.
India achieves a score of 59.4% in terms of
gender equality.
16.
17. A five-year-old girl was married to a 17-
year-old boy seven years ago in Dharwad.
After a year, the boy died in an accident
and people in the village started treating
her as a widow.
18. “Because she was treated as a widow, she
was not allowed to attend any religious
ceremonies or social gatherings in the
village. Presently, she is 12 and does
domestic work at her in-laws place. Also,
she is not allowed to go home.”
